What Are Gameplay Packs?
Gameplay Packs are focussed on bringing additional services and Scenarios to specific routes in your collection. This can sometimes be new wagons, carriages and locomotives, or additional gameplay using existing trains in Train Sim World for a specific route.
In previous Train Sim World titles, this has been represented by the New Journeys Add-ons and Loco Add-on Bundles.
What Are the Packs for Train Sim World 5?
For Train Sim World 5, there are 3 gameplay packs that add services to the game’s three core routes for 9th Generation Console and PC players. These can be purchased separately for $5.99/£4.99/€5.99, or as a Gameplay Add-on Bundle for $13.99/£11.99/€13.99.
The packs are:
- Metrolink Holiday Train Pack for San Bernardino Line
- HKA Bogie Hopper Wagon Pack for West Coast Main Line (South)
- DB BR 111 & n-Wagen Pack for Frankfurt - Fulda
Metrolink Holiday Train Pack
Light up Los Angeles and delight passengers during the holidays with additional services and Scenarios along the San Bernardino Line. Climb aboard Metrolink’s F125 locomotive and its Rotem passenger cars, all adorned with festive lights to bring holiday spirit through California!
The F125 forms a regular part of the Metrolink fleet along with the Rotem cab car that leads the return journey in this push-pull formation. Though older units typically run the holiday services in winter, this gameplay pack represents what modern diesel power would look like fully dressed up for festive fun. Metrolink themselves plan to use the F125 on forthcoming Holiday Train services in real-life.
3 additional services are added to the San Bernardino Line Weekend schedule. These run from LA Union to Rancho Cucamonga, Rancho Cucamonga to Covina and Covina to LA Union.
3 new Scenarios are also included. Alternatively, you can use Free Roam to take the Holiday Train along other routes in your collection, such as Antelope Valley Line.
HKA Bogie Hopper Wagon Pack
For West Coast Main Line South, the addition of the HKA Bogie Hopper Wagon allows for more variety in freight movements beyond the Intermodal trains included in the route. They will come with updated Suspension physics seen in other Train Sim World 5 wagons and locomotives.
Originally built as JMA wagons in 1995, the classification was changed to HKA in 2009 to mark their change from being coal wagons to aggregate wagons – they were also fitted with track-friendly bogies for easier rolling around corners.
The entire fleet of HKA wagons operates on the aggregate flows of DB Cargo UK, and many of them operate in fittingly red DB colours, as per their introduction to Train Sim World in Great Western Express. However, as many as a third of the wagons still retain the weathered tones of National Power, their initial and long-defunct owner.
These branded wagons bring additional freight services to the West Coast Main Line timetable, along with 3 additional Scenarios for that route.
They can also be used in Free Roam, Formation Designer and Scenario Planner to facilitate their use across other UK route Add-ons in your collection.
Free Starter Pack players can also make use of these Wagons using Free Roam in Training Center with the TC Class 66.
Note: this pack includes just the HKA Bogie Hopper Wagon and not a variant of the Class 66.
DB BR 111 & n-Wagen Pack
Swap out classic traction between Frankfurt and Fulda with the DB BR 111 and compatible n-Wagen cab car.
The BR 111 (previously seen in the Salzburg – Rosenheim route Add-on) has been a regular feature on Germany’s railway network since the 1970s on both S-Bahn and InterCity services. It utilises a tap changer control system with both manual and semi-automatic input, bringing a different style of operation to that seen on contemporary locomotives.
Also included is the retro n-Wagen (previously seen in the Bremen – Oldenburg route Add-on), a single-deck fleet of passenger coaches complete with Karlsruher Kopf cab car.
On the Frankfurt – Fulda route, this locomotive functions with the older n-Wagen set and its cab car for a different style of service as part of an alternative timetable, replacing the BR 114 and more modern BR 146 & Dostos on RB and RE services. 3 new Scenarios are also included.
What if I don’t own Train Sim World 5’s core routes?
Though not a requirement, we recommend that you own the respective core routes before purchasing the Gameplay Packs. These routes are:
- San Bernardino Line: Los Angeles – San Bernardino
- West Coast Main Line: London Euston – Milton Keynes
- Frankfurt – Fulda: Kinzigtalbahn
If you’ve come into Train Sim World 5 via the Free Starter Pack, then the three core routes can be purchased separately, or by purchasing one of three core bundles: Train Sim World 5: Standard, Deluxe or Special Edition.
You can then add more gameplay to these routes by purchasing the Gameplay Packs.
